Favorite Movies Soundtracks??

[Logical]

Mine are:

Rudy
Cider House Rules

[Logical]

2. It would for me. Indiana Jones also!!

[Logical]

4. Good one also. "The Tourist" is also pretty!

[jakeXT]

9. Making the Indiana Jones Trilogy - The Music

[Logical]

10. Wow, thanks for this!!

[JDPriestly]

11. John Williams is a classical composer in my book.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

20. Would Amadeus qualify?

The music is, after all, entirely from Mozart and Salieri

[Sienna86]

5. Out of Africa

Beautiful.

[Logical]

6. Yes! Another good one. Also, parts of "Legends of the Fall"

[Atman]

7. Magnolia

The musical score, not the Amy Mann songs. Although they're good, too.

[Logical]

8. I agree. Interesting soundtrack. Sort of like American Beauty was.

[dmallind]

12. Have to go back a bit - Korngold's for Robin Hood and (IIRC) The Sea Hawk in the 30s. nt

[GoddessOfGuinness]

25. Love Korngold...

Great stuff!

[NRaleighLiberal]

13. Dances with Wolves, Out of Africa (both John Barry), Thin Red Line (Hans Zimmer)

also like Howards End, Amelie, Remains of the Day, American Beauty, Lost in Translation (not classical, but superb!), Mostly Martha, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Piano, The English Patient, Blue (of the Red/White/Blue trilogy of Kieslowski)

Oh yes - Koyaanisqatsi and Baraka also go to the head of the list!

[housewolf]

14. Hello, I'm new here

Happy to have found you!

I have a few favorites - I'm currently very much drawn to wonderful dramatic tragedy films soundtracks, Carrington and "The End of the Affair" are two recent ones that draw me - I can put those movies on and run them again and again while I do other things, just to bask in the soundtracks.

More recently, all 3 of "The Lord of the Rings" and a couple mentioned by others - "The English Patient" and "Out of Africa". Oh, and "The Bridges of Madison County"

I'll stop now ....

[Logical]

15. New here but not to DU!! Welcome!

[housewolf]

17. Thank you!

I'm glad I found you!

[gateley]

16. Aaargh! My mind just went blank. Can't even remember the movie but it was

so beautiful I went looking for info and apparently a couple of pieces were written just for the movie.

I'll come back with it when I remember because you might like to hear it -- just beautiful.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. Miklos Rozsa - El Cid

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[Fortinbras Armstrong]

19. An obvious one, The Third Man

[CBHagman]

21. In no particular order...

...Patrick Doyle's soundtracks to Henry V (1989) and Sense and Sensibility, Ennio Morricone's for The Mission, and the music of Lonesome Dove by Basil Poledouris.

I'm also fond of the Scrooge/A Christmas Carol score that incorporates all sorts of English melodies -- "Oranges and Lemons," "Barbara Allen" -- and the soundtrack to the 1940 film Pride and Prejudice, which does the same and more.

[JesseJonesNYC]

22. Pulp Fiction all the way

Can't beat it!

[samsingh]

31. yes

[mjrr_595]

23. definitely goodfellas imo

[GoddessOfGuinness]

26. I love Randy Newman's soundtracks...

The Natural
Seabiscuit

Also Rachel Portman - Bagger Vance, Chocolat and Cider House Rules

[fightthegoodfightnow]

27. Seabiscuit's Soundtrack Carried that Movie

I remember thinking why the heck do so many movies cut their soundtrack budgets. Makes the movie.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

28. The Ninth Gate

Wojciech Kilar who wrote the soundtrack for the film The Ninth Gate is considered a major Polish classical composer. He may not be the greatest, as I think I mentioned Miklos Rozsa above, who is generally considered the all-time greatest film composer in the music world (nominated an astonishing 13 times for the Academy Award for best musical score for films like El Cid, Ben Hur, Double Indemnity, Lost Week-End, King of Kings, The Thief of Baghdad, Quo Vadis, Spellbound, nearly 100 in all), and actually receiving 3 Oscars.

Kilar's score for the film The Ninth Gate is a master work, for its incredible variety that I have never experienced in any other film. The music is key to the atmosphere of the story and functions like a character. This one hour clip gives some idea of the many themes developed for the film. Listen to the haunting melody at approximately the 29:20 mark. The demonic sounding theme at the 42:30 mark is positively grandiose. And the opening piece with harpsichord and piano that repeats at the 50:15 mark is of breathtaking beauty. Kilar also composed the beautiful score for Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula.

[Dash87]

29. Hans Zimmer's soundtracks are my favorite

His ost for "The Last Samurai" is incredible.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

30. Yes, I agree

I've loved that soundtrack. The Last Samurai had exquisite music. I'm not a fan of Tom Cruise and usually avoid his movies and I heard that the storyline had little to do with true Japanese history, but I've watched The Last Samurai many times because of the sublime score alone, which is rousing and beautiful. I liked the fact that Zimmer didn't feel he necessarily had to write a score that sounded Asian. He did use traditional Japanese drums and flutes among the instruments but his score was subtle in that regard. Yet, to me, it fit the ambiance of the world of the Japanese Samurai very well.

Good choice on your part.

[rdharma]

32. John Barry

Dr. No (1962) – James Bond Theme used on main and end titles and Bond's arrival in Jamaica
From Russia with Love (lyrics by Lionel Bart) (1963)
Goldfinger (lyrics by Leslie Bricusse), (1964)
Thunderball (lyrics by Don Black) (1965)
You Only Live Twice (lyrics by Leslie Bricusse) (1967)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (lyrics by Hal David) (1969)
Diamonds Are Forever (lyrics by Don Black) (1971)
The Man with the Golden Gun (lyrics by Don Black) (1974)
Moonraker (lyrics by Hal David) (1979)
Octopussy (lyrics by Tim Rice) (1983)
A View to a Kill (lyrics by Duran Duran) (1985)
The Living Daylights (lyrics by Paul Waaktaar-Savoy) (1987)Beat Girl (1960)
Never Let Go (1960)
The Cool Mikado (1962)
The Amorous Prawn (1962)
The L-Shaped Room (1962)
Man in the Middle (1963)
A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
Zulu (1964)
Boy and Bicycle (1965)
Mister Moses (1965)
Four in the Morning (1965)
The Party's Over (1965)
The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965)
King Rat (1965)
The Ipcress File (1965)
Born Free (1966)
The Chase (1966)
The Wrong Box (1966)
The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
The Whisperers (1967)
Dutchman (1967)
Boom! (1968)
Petulia (1968)
Deadfall (1968)
The Lion in Winter (1968)
The Appointment (1969)
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Monte Walsh (1970)
The Last Valley (1970)
They Might Be Giants (1971)
Murphy's War (1971)
Walkabout (1971)
Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
Follow Me! (1972)
A Doll's House (1973)
The Tamarind Seed (1974)
The Dove (1974)
The Day of the Locust (1975)
King Kong (1976)
Robin and Marian (1976)
The Deep (1977)
First Love (1977)
The White Buffalo (1977)
Game Of Death (1978)
The Betsy (1978)
Starcrash (1978)
Hanover Street (1979)
The Black Hole (1979)
Somewhere in Time (1980)
Touched by Love (1980)
Inside Moves (1980)
Night Games (1980)
Raise the Titanic (1980)
The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
Body Heat (1981)
Frances (1982)
Murder By Phone (1982)
Hammett (1982)
The Golden Seal (1983)
High Road to China (1983)
The Cotton Club (1984)
Until September (1984)
Mike's Murder (1984)
Jagged Edge (1985)
Out of Africa (1985)
Howard the Duck (1986)
A Killing Affair (1986)
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
The Golden Child (1986) (only partially used in final cut)
Hearts of Fire (1987)
Masquerade (1988)
Dances with Wolves (1990)
Chaplin (1992)
Ruby Cairo (1993)
My Life (1993)
Indecent Proposal (1993)
The Specialist (1994)
Cry, The Beloved Country (1995)
Across The Sea of Time (3D IMAX film)
The Scarlet Letter (1995)
Swept from the Sea (1997)
Mercury Rising (1998)
Playing by Heart (1998)
Enigma (2001)

[BOG PERSON]

33. Alien3

Blade Runner

[BeyondGeography]

34. I'll put in a bid for Angels and Insects

which is an excuse to post the Waltz:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

35. One of my favorite musical openings for any film

[Logical]

39. Amazing! nt

[brightone]

36. St. Elmo's Fire is one of my favorites

This is another awesome 80s album! All the songs are great! St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion) was used as the theme song of the 1985 movie St. Elmo's Fire, with the lyrics reworked to include the movie title.

[gopiscrap]

37. Mine are

1. Amadeus

2. Clockwork Orange

3. O Brother Where Art Thou

[ginnyinWI]

38. Hamlet

Kenneth Branagh version, 1996. When Placido Domingo sings, "In Pace" I just melt.

[Number9Dream]

40. Favorite Film Pieces

- John Williams - Jurassic Park, Jaws, Raiders, ET, Close Encounters, etc.

- Bernard Herrmann - Journey to the Center of the Earth Suite, Psycho, North By Northwest, etc.

- Miklos Rozsa - Ben-Hur suite, others.

- Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Captain Blood, others.

- Robert Farnon - Horatio Hornblower, others.

- Ennio Morricone - Cinema Paradiso

- Morton Gould - The Ship (Windjammer)

- Maurice Jarre - Building the Barn (Witness)

- Michel Legrand - Summer of '42

- Peter Gabriel - Down to Earth (WALL-E)

[Logical]

41. Thanks for this!! n-t

[Number9Dream]

42. Picture Perfect: Music for the Movies - WWFM free webcasts

http://www.wwfm.org/webcasts_picture_perfect.shtml

[Manifestor_of_Light]

43. Pat Metheny - A Map of the World (2000)

Starring Sigourney Weaver and Julianne Moore and David Strathairn.
I had to drive from Houston to Dallas to see the movie. It was distributed in very few theaters and I don't know why.

Pat Metheny is my favorite jazz guitarist. He plays clean, which is very unfashionable these days in rock. He stole all his licks from Wes Montgomery. I've followed Pat since the mid-1970s. Some of the stuff he has put out in the last ten years has sounded like white noise, with no structure to it. That I do not like.

A sample:

The writing of the Map of the World Score, Part 1:

The writing of the Map of the World Score, Part 2:

"This is not America" by David Bowie and Pat Metheny, from "The Falcon and the Snowman", 1985.

I once saw the Pat Metheny Group live, and he said, "I wrote a movie score, and I didn't get rich and famous" referring to "The Falcon and the Snowman". It was a true story about two teenagers who were spies. They used a shredder to mix their drinks in.

I also like those European guys who went to Hollywood in the 30s and wrote movie scores: Max Steiner(Gone with the Wind), Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Miklos Rosza, Bernard Herrmann(Citizen Kane, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Psycho), etc. Can't remember all their names. Guys who knew how to orchestrate. Sometimes John Williams' scores remind me of the horn parts in Bruckner's Fourth.

Sergei Prokofief wrote the score to "Alexander Nevsky."

And as you probably all know, they stole the Polovetzian Dances of Borodin for "Kismet". "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" is from Borodin's String Quartet No. 2. "Strangers in Paradise" is from the Polovetzian Dances.

Steal from the best.

[AwakeAtLast]

44. Late to the party, but here are mine

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Master and Commander

Requiem For a Dream

West Side Story

Trainspotting

Singles

Cold Mountain (totally underrated, IMO)